Märta
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Märta är en svensk (ursprungligen dansk) form av → Margareta
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Märta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 16th most common given name.
- PLPoland1 in 132(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 138
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 143
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Märta itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #154 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 569 (measured from records)
- 1 in 132 (inferred from the name graph)
368,239 named Martha, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Marta in AR Argentina, ES Spain, PL Poland and 4 more and Martha in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Märta är en svensk (ursprungligen dansk) form av → Margareta. Det har varit ett popu lärt namn de senaste årtiondena. I den rikssvenska almanackan 11 maj (sedan 1901, då det av ljudlikhetsskäl efterträdde Mamertus) och i den finlandssvenska 26 augusti.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Märta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #123 | 368,239as Martha | 1 in 903 | 368K | Martha | 569 |
| PL Poland | #40 | 289,122 | 1 in 132 | 289K | Marta | 227 |
| CO Colombia | #218 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 180 | 267 | Marta | 120 |
| AR Argentina | #70 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 190 | 4K | Marta | 150 |
| ES Spain | #26 | 229,080 | 1 in 218 | 229K | Marta | 289 |
| CZ Czechia | #81 | 77,794 | 1 in 138 | 78K | Marta | 114 |
| SV El Salvador | #44 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 143 | — | Marta | 51 |
| CR Costa Rica | #16 | 12,353 | 1 in 413 | 12K | Marta | 65 |
368,239 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Märta is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Danish: contracted form of Märeta , an obsolete variant of MERETE . The name is now also very popular in Sweden, where it was the thirty-sixth most common female name in 1973.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vera Nilssonb. 1888SEnot in their usual nameSwedish artist and painter (1888–1979)
- Märta Blomstedtb. 1899FIFinnish architect (1899-1982)
- Märta Dorffb. 1909SESwedish actress
- Birgit Nilssonb. 1918SEnot in their usual nameSwedish opera singer (1918–2005)
- Märta Torénb. 1926SESwedish actress (1925-1957)
- Elisabeth Rehnb. 1935FInot in their usual nameFinnish defence minister 1990–1995 and UN undersecretary general
- Märta Tikkanenb. 1935FIFinnish-Swedish writer and debater
- Caroline Krookb. 1944SEnot in their usual nameSwedish bishop
- Karin Enströmb. 1966SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
- Märta Stenevib. 1976SESwedish politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Märta mean?
- Recorded meaning: Märta är en svensk (ursprungligen dansk) form av → Margareta.
- Is Märta a male or female name?
- Märta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Märta?
- In the etymology graph, Rita, Megan and Peggy are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Margit and Margareta.
- In which country does Märta have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 368 thousand people named Martha, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Märta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Märta is densest in Poland — about 1 in 132 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Märta?
- In Poland, the national register counted 289,122 people named Märta in 2026, about 1 in 132 residents.
- How common is Märta compared with other names?
- In the United States, Märta is the 123rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A4rtaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Märta” — the 123rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.